June i, 1902.] 



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Collar Co. was incorporated in New Jersey, to control the 

 patents. The Keystone company, mentioned above, has been 

 organized to work under a license from the American com- 

 pany, in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and southern New 

 Jersey. 



■=Chicago Rubber Shoe Co. (Chicago), under Illinois laws, 

 to deal in rubber goods at wholesale ; capital, $25,000, fully 

 paid. The company will continue the business of E. G. Stearns 

 & Co. Edgar G. Stearns is president and treasurer and George 

 I- Gerok, secretary. The additional directors are Homer E. 

 Sawyer and Eben H. Paine, of New York, and H. G. Arm- 

 strong, of Chicago — all connected with the United States Rub- 

 ber Co. 



= The Sectional Rubber Tire Co. (Buffalo, New York), May 

 17, under New York laws, to manufacture and sell tires, auto- 

 mobiles, and bicycles ; capital, $75,000. Directors: Edward P. 

 Aspinwall, George F. Westcott, F. J. Barron, Mary D. Birdsell, 

 and Robert L. Cox. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 

 The Diamond Rubber Co. (Akron, Ohio), with $1,500,000 

 capital, has been licensed as a foreign corporation to transact 

 business in Illinois, in which state they report $40,000 capital 

 invested. 



=The New York Insulated Wire Co. have removed from the 

 offices so long occupied by them, in Cortlandt street. New 

 York, to No. 114 Liberty street. 



= Work is reported brisk at the factory of the Hazelton 

 Boiler Co. (Rutherford, New Jersey). Among the orders lately 

 received is one for three boilers, 450 H. p., from the Carlton 

 Paper Mills (Passaic, N. J.),and for an additional 150H. r. boiler 

 from the Meriden (Conn.) Electric Light Co. When the last 

 named order is filled the Meriden company will have Hazelton 

 boilers aggregating 600 H. p. 



=The Calumet Tire Rubber Co. (Chicago) are running their 

 two factories twenty-four hours a day, and are, at least, three 

 weeks behind in their orders. Mr. Raymond B. Price, the 

 factory manager, has returned from his Mexican trip with his 

 health fully established. 



= The Chicago branch of the Home Rubber Co. (Trenton, 

 New Jersey), in charge of Mr. H. L. Davis, has been removed 

 from the Western Union building to No. 17 La Salle street, 

 where more storage space is available, with better shipping 

 facilities. 



= The Phillips Insulated Wire Co. are about to begin work 

 on another good sized addition to their plant at Darlington, 

 Rhode Island. The plans call for an extension of the main 

 building. A portion of the addition will be used for the ship- 

 ping department. 



=The employes of the Alden Barber Co. (Barberton, Ohio), 

 have organized a brass band. The employes both of The B. 

 F. Goodrich Co. and the Diamond Rubber Co., at Akron, have 

 bands. 



=The Goshen Rubber Co. (Goshen, Indiana), have filed a 

 certificate with the secretary of state, of the increase of their 

 capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000. 



=The Brockton (Mass.) Rubber Scrap Co. state that such 

 orders as may be intended for them should go hereafter to their 

 Boston representative, W. C. Coleman, No. 170 Summer street. 

 = The report circulated from Mexico, that the Trenton Rub- 

 ber Manufacturing Co. (Trenton, New Jersey), was planning to 

 build a branch factory in that country, is denied by the presi- 

 dent of the company. 



=It is rumored that Mr. John J. McGill will shortly sever his 

 connection with the Canadian Rubber Co. of Montreal, of 

 which concern he has been for many years general manager. 



= According to The Bicycling World the G. & J. Tire Co. 

 (Indianapolis) are preparing to file suits for alleged infringe- 

 ments of their patents, including proceedings against certain 

 importers of automobiles fitted with foreign made detachable 

 tires which are claimed to infringe the G. & J. rights. 



r= Werner & Pfleiderer (Saginaw, Michigan), manufacturers 

 of rubber mixing machines, advise The India Rubber World 

 that Mr. F. Notz has retired from the position of general man- 

 ager of their works, being succeeded by Mr. Emil Staehle. 



^The Massachusetts Chemical Co., who are quite large man- 

 ufacturers of rubber specialties in the insulating lines, will re- 

 move their Boston offices from No. 200 to No. 170 Summer 

 street. 



= The International Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York) 

 are now operating their plant at Nos. 351-353 East Sixty- first 

 street, which is the factory foimerly occupied by the Straus Tire 

 and Rubber Co. Edward Loewenthal is general manager, and the 

 company have an office at Nos. 290-291 West street. New York. 

 = The Colonial Rubber Goods Co., the closing of whose fac- 

 tory at Franklin, Massachusetts, has been mentioned already, 

 have been petitioned into involuntary bankruptcy, at the in- 

 stance of three creditors having claims of about $6000. 



=The New Orleans Belt and Terminal Co. have put in place, 

 in their grain elevator at Port Chalmette, La., a rubber con- 

 veying belt 30 inches wide, 1024 feet long, and weighing 5200 

 pounds. It will be used to convey grain from the elevator to 

 the ships, a distance of 1000 feet, and will have a capacity of 

 13.000 bushels per hour. The belt was made by the Peerless 

 Rubber Manufacturing Co. (New York), who are represented in 

 New Orleans by J. H. Menge & Sons, Limited. 



= C. M. Henderson & Co. (Chicago), who retired recently 

 from the shoe manufacturing business, are still jobbing rub- 

 bers. They moved on May i to Nos. 248-250 Market street, 

 where they carry a complete stock of Woonsocket and Wales- 

 Goodyear goods. 



= There has been some reorganization of the office force of 

 the Woonsocket Rubber Co. The payroll bookkeepers at the 

 "Alice" and Millville factories have tendered their resigna- 

 tions, to take effect June i, and the work on the two payrolls 

 will be consolidated, under Henry A. Follett. 



= Referring to the recent volcanic eruptions in the West In- 

 dies, the Chicago branch of the Home Rubber Co. advertises ; 

 " Had Mount Pelee been properly packed with ' N. B. O.' black 

 sheet packing, everything would have been well with Martinque 

 to-day, as it would not have been burned out, nor could it have 

 been blown out." 



=Morse & Rogers, shoe jobbers, Nos. 134-140 Duane street. 

 New York, have purchased from the receivers of the Milltown 

 India Rubber Co. the stock of rubbers on hand at the closing 

 of the Milltown factory. The amount involved in the trans- 

 action is reported to be $108,000. 



= The Wales-Goodyear Rubber Shoe Co. made a| shipment 

 of rubbers from Naugatuck during the month, on one order 

 from the West, which embraced 5867 cases of goods, and filled 

 eight railway cars. 



=The Consumers' Rubber Co. (Cleveland, Ohio), in addi- 

 tion to their store at No. 22 South Water street, have rented 

 the building No. 199 Bank street, to provide for the increase of 

 their business. Extensive repairs have been made to both of 

 these properties and long leases signed for them. 



= Chicago jobbers of rubber belting and hose are reported to 

 be doing an exceptionally good business, some of them being a 

 month or more behind in their orders. One house is said to 

 have turned down an order for a $1800 belt. Stocks of garden 

 hose are very low. 



